Google promises 10% better battery life in Chrome with a new experimental feature

[silversurfer]

Energy efficiency is not the strongest point of Chrome (or any other Chromium-based browser), which is why developers are always looking for new ways and technologies to make Chrome consume less battery juice. A new experimental feature promises up to 10% battery improvements by limiting background JavaScript activities in pages running in the background.

Chrome users can check out the new experimental flag in Chrome Dev and Canary (version 105 and higher). Go to chrome://flags and enable the Quick intensive throttling after loading.

Here is how the feature works according to Google (via Chrome Unboxed):

For pages that are loaded when backgrounded, activates intensive throttling after 10 seconds instead of the default 5 minutes. Intensive throttling will limit wake ups, from setTimeout and setInterval tasks with a high nesting level and delayed scheduler.postTask tasks, to 1 per minute.

Google claims its internal testing revealed no significant regressions, but the experiment yielded positive improvements to CPU time, effectively reducing energy consumption and extending battery life. Still, the new flag remains an experiment and a work in progress, so Google will continue improving it before shipping it to the public.

Google plans to bring the new platforms to Chrome on all platforms, including ChromeOS. Users and developers can learn more about intensive throttling after loading in Google Chrome in the official documentation.

Google promises 10% better battery life in Chrome with a new experimental feature

Google Chrome received a new experimental flag that should bring notable battery life improvements. According to Google, quick intensive throttling after loading should improve battery life by 10%.

www.neowin.net

 

[SeriousHoax]

So is it something similar to Edge's sleeping tabs?

 

[Sammo]

Testing now...

 

[silversurfer]

Google notes on the experiment's Chrome Status page that it noticed "significant improvement (~10%) to CPU time when all tabs are hidden and silent". While it may happen that all tabs are "hidden and silent", e.g., when a user steps away from the device, gains will be less than that in most cases.

Currently, wake ups from JS timers are throttled to 1 per minute after the page has spent 5 minutes in the background [1], which is very conservative and was chosen to allow a launch of Intensive Wake Up Throttling with minimal regression risk, so we’re considering of reducing this timeout to 10 seconds if the page is loaded when hidden.

New Chrome experiment promises better battery life - gHacks Tech News

Google is testing a new feature in Chrome Canary and Dev versions of the company's web browser that may improve battery life according to Google.

www.ghacks.net

 

[Sammo]

hmmm....lets see how it compares to Brave.

To me its faster and uses less resources than Brave does. Definitely quieter than the current release version of Chrome. So far, so good.